Jason Jones
Watching television has become a rare and cherished privilege for Jason Jones. Since 2005, the Hamilton-born actor and comic has secured his own TV niche as a busy working correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - but so has his wife, Toronto-born Daily Show fixture Samantha Bee.
In recent years the couple has managed to find the time to work on individual projects - she wrote a book, I Know I Am But What Are You?, while he's filmed sitcom pilots for both CBS and ABC - and they even managed to co-star in the holiday comedy feature Coopers' Christmas, out this week on DVD.
But Jones and Bee are also the parents of three young children, aged four, two and six months. On most days, their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side is a hotbed of general kid activity, but Jones admits he does faithfully program the Tivo so he and the missus can watch once the wee ones are asleep. Here are three shows on his hit list.
Dexter It's pretty grisly stuff, but our life is peachy-keen rosy goodness, so it's nice to get a little grit now and then. What's weird with Dexter is that each season always starts off slow, and picks up exponentially around episode six, and then you're hooked again. I was ready to give the show up this season, but they're weaving their web and rolling again. It's great.
30 Rock This show is like a great joke machine. It's just joke-joke-joke. They don't let anything sit, they don't milk it. It's like watching a machine-gun of jokes. Some hit, some don't. When they hit, they're really funny; when they don't, it doesn't matter, because there are three more coming at you. I love it.
The C Word Sam and I are both big Laura Linney fans. She's such a terrific actress. She's so genuine and that comes off on-screen in this show. I actually bumped into her on the street the other day, and she knew who I was, which was really strange. When you meet someone you really respect and admire and it turns out they know you, it's always the weirdest thing.